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Saturday, January 30, 2016

RIP Georgy Firtich

Georgy Firtich, Russian composer and pianist, dead at 77.

Georgy Ivanovich Firtich/Георгий Иванович Фиртич] was
born on October 20, 1938, in Pskov and died on January 27, 2016. He was a
Soviet and Russian composer, jazz pianist and a professor at Herzen University.
Firstich received an honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation.

It was received his from the School of Music by
Rimsky-Korsakov (class composition) and Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1962,
class of Yuri Balkashin and Boris Arapov).

He was still studying when he started performing as a
pianist, in his school years with the performance of the classics and his own
compositions, and in school as a jazz singer.

When he attended the undergraduate conservatory he began
writing for film (in this area he worked for almost 40 years). In 1962, Georgy
Firtich joined the Union Composers of USSR. As of 1994, he lead the ACM
(Association for Contemporary Music), the Union of Composers of St. Petersburg.

Georgy Firtich died January 27, 2016 in St. Petersburg at
77 years of age.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.